We live in an apartment in Chennai that has a living room, a dining room, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, and a balcony.  In the living room there are two red chairs and a red couch.  In the dining room there is a dining table, and a table for the electronics.  There are step-down plugs and adapter plugs so we can charge our things.  My sister and I share a bedroom, and my mom and dad share another.  The balcony is level with the treetops, and you can often see little tree squirrels that look like chipmunks with long, fluffy, striped squirrel tails.
    Every morning, my mom wakes me up at 6:00 to go on a walk on the beach with her, my dad, and my sister.  There are lots of people stretching and jogging on the beach at that time of day because that is the only time it is cool enough to walk.  There are fishing boats on the shore and they are all painted in bright colors.  There are also boats made of logs tied together.
Isabel 22/9/08


 MY FIRST DAYS IN INDIAby Clio
I went to India on September 15th and got there two days later. I was so tired.  The apartment we rented is nice.  When we went on a walk.  We saw monkeys and their babies.  They were really cute.  There are lots of dogs on the streets.  Mom wakes us up at five in the morning to go on an exercise walk. It's very tiring. We do home schooling every morning.  So far it's been fun.

Coyote Stompers: Wimberley, Texas

1st photo: Cousins Clio, Marina, Isabel and Leo
Wimberley, Texas -note the ever present Action Man

My grandparents took my cousins, mom, sister, and I, to see some donkeys. Their names are: Jenny, (she is the mother) Jack, (he is the father) and Jackson, (he is the baby). We got to feed Jack and Jenny. My grandparents are being giving Jackson because they have deer and the coyotes eat the deer. They need to
protect the deer so they will get Jackson.

Clio 9/08

2nd photo: (Future coyote- stomper) Jackson with his mother Jenny (supreme varmint killer).

The Blue Hole, Wimberley, Texas

In August, I went to the Blue Hole with my cousins. The Blue Hole is in Wimberley, Texas. I climbed a big, forty-five foot cypress tree with only knots for the first forty feet. I wanted to swing from the tree on a rope swing with a wooden bar. I had to pull the swing up using a rope attached to the swing. I had to take the rope off and step off the tree. I bear climbed to get the rope and it felt like I was going to be pulled off the tree. Then I stepped off and I fell a little, then the swing caught me.

It was scarier then last year, because there was no one there to help me and I didn’t have to get the rope myself because they handed it to me. Another reason it was scarier was because no one else was doing it. Last year I was able to do it five times. This year I was only able to do it once and I felt tired afterwards. The Blue Hole was really fun.

Isabel